By Selwyn Duke

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Andrew Cuomo was the first sitting politician to receive an Emmy, awarded just last November. Now we learn that the “Love Gov,” as he once dubbed himself — whose “Founder’s Award” recognizes an individual who “crosses cultural boundaries to touch our common humanity” — crossed some other boundaries and touched a lot more than that.

New York’s governor won’t be winning an Emmy for his more recent acting performances, however, not if the groveling, almost four-minute apology he offered Wednesday is any indication. The act was in response, of course, to the sexual-harassment allegations against him, which you can read about here and here. But the Machiavellian mea culpa won’t help him, say some observers, and not just because his pretense at getting choked up was as fake as his brother’s news network.

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By Selwyn Duke

All during the coronavirus situation, masked reporters masking reality have noted, enthusiastically, every mortality milestone reached during the past year. Now it’s “500,000 Americans have died of COVID-19!” which certainly is an attention-getter. It’s also profound COVIDiocy, writes an ex-medical examiner with more than 30 years experience in death investigation. The number isn’t even remotely accurate.

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By Selwyn Duke

Question: How many cases of injustice are acceptable? This is a good question for the Associated Press, which apparently thinks it’s okay for boys claiming to be female to compete in girls’ sports — as long as they don’t take too many spots away from the lasses.

Of course, the AP doesn’t define “too many.”

The outlet also essentially states that we should wait until people suffer injustice before legislating against injustice.

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By Selwyn Duke

“If they’re eight, it’s too late” has long been NAMbLA’s infamous credo. Now it’s perhaps also being embraced by a different child abuser: the Arizona Department of Education. It warns that babies exhibit the first signs of “racism” at three months of age and that white children, darn those little privileged things, are especially racist. The department also says that because of this, kids are never too young for its social-engineering-oriented remedies.

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By Selwyn Duke

“Existential” has become a very popular word today, even among those who aren’t adherents of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. For example, people who want attention focused on some pet issue will often call it an “existential threat.”

We’ve heard that climate change is an existential threat (not likely), that ISIS is an existential threat (not really), that “structural racism” is an existential threat (not exactly), and that China is an existential threat (you bet). But a true existential threat, and the greatest one we face, is rarely understood well or discussed. But a voice from beyond the grave warned of it Monday — issuing words to the wise.

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By Selwyn Duke

We’ve heard many complaints over the years about banning books, whether at issue was past church proscriptions or a school library protecting children from sexual propaganda. But perhaps far more significant than this is that the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, is trying to control what you can read via his corporate leviathan, Amazon — by labeling what you “shouldn’t” read “hate speech” and banning it.

There apparently was no announcement of this rule’s implementation, nor is there any consistent definition of “hate speech,” a designation that does not exist in American law. Amazon simply began banning books it doesn’t like.

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

Is a new film in the offing? Perhaps Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Coronavirus? We could thus wonder after the World Economic Forum (WEF) posted a bizarre but revealing tweet, with an embedded video, and proclaimed that “lockdowns are quietly improving cities around the world.”

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By Selwyn Duke

When your policy proposal starts to sound like a Babylon Bee headline, you should probably check yourself. Then again, this requires a sense of the ridiculous. Bringing this to mind is news that Uncle Sam spent $787 million on “gender equality projects” in the land of burkas, bombings, and boy play (bacha bāzī).

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By Selwyn Duke

Children aren’t allowed to buy cigarettes, drive cars, enter into contracts, or even have an aspirin at school without parental consent. But according to “Rachel” Levine, Joe Biden’s choice for assistant secretary of health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), so-called “transgender treatments” for children are a-okay.

Most people find this outrageous, of course. Among them is world famous pediatric neurosurgeon and ex-presidential candidate Ben Carson, who in a recent interview called such life-rending treatments “child abuse.”

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